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56 THE XEiDEi. [No. 459, January 8, 1859...
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INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESS.
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NOTES ON INDIAN PROGRESS. "We think it n...
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56 The Xeidei. [No. 459, January 8, 1859...
56 THE XEiDEi . [ No . 459 , January 8 , 1859 .
India And Indian Progress.
INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESS .
Notes On Indian Progress. "We Think It N...
NOTES ON INDIAN PROGRESS . "We think it necessary to contradict a statement , which appeared some few days ago , to the effect that the Government had determined on granting no . more guarantees for public works for some time . ^ The Government are exercising the greatest caution in the amount of guarantees and the . nature of the under , takings guaranteed , but so far from such a step being taken as the peremptory refusal of guarantees , various important undertakings are now under the examination of the local governments .
Although the alarm as to Nepaul has subsided , at Darjeeling Dr . Campbell , the superintendent , continues his preparations for strengthening the Jillapahar- and the European cantonments for the expected increase , of force . The alarm as to Jung Bahadoor is , however , only transferred to other districts , and the Tirhoot people , who were already alarmed , are becoming none the less anxious because Jung Bahadoor , whose designs on the province are notorious , proposes to make a pilgrimage to
Hajeepore with one thousand men . Private letters speak strongly of the feeling of the planters , who complain that the Government has left them without protection . It is affirmed Jung Bahadoor proposed to bring with him ten thousand men * A great quantity of baggage had already reached Hajeepbre . There are several places of this name , but the one in question may be considered a suburb of Patna , being opposite to the ferry over the Ganges to that great city , and at the confluence of the Gunduck . Patna ; is ominous for the massacre of 200
English prisoners in 1763 by the German Sumroo , under orders of Cossim AIL At Darjeeling , a branch has been formed of the Society for Promoting English Settlement and English Progress in India , and efforts are being made to form a branch in Calcutta . The Darjeeling people intend to petition Parliament : in the next session , and are collecting evidence-as to the resources of their settlement . The Friend of India says of emigration , that " the design is excellent , provided the proprietors offer to every emigrant distinct specified advantages , arid keep their pens from the vague promises which produce such misery . "
At Simla , the Proclamation-day was accompanied by a grand ceremony , as the Commissioner , Lord W . M . Hay , conferred promotions and rewards on anumberof the subsidiary princes . The following was created a Rajah : the Keonthal Ranab ; the following were created Ranahs : the Thakoors of Kofcee , Gboond , Theog , and Bulsun . Rewards were conferred on the Rajahs of Kihloor and Sirmoor , and the Kihloor Wuzeer ; the Ranahs of Joobul , Bhogul , Dhomee , Budgee , and Kooneer ; the Thakoors of JKoomharsain , Turoeh , Durcotee , arid Kolhar ; the Vakeels of Bissahir and Puttialla , and Jye-Sing . Dr . Ross , Civil Surgeon , has been appointed an ex-qffido Municipal Commissioner for Simla .
Leave has been given for Simla to Lieut .-Gol . N . D . Barton in extension , to Lieut . G . N . Money , Col . G . Congreve , C . B ., in extension , Lieut . G . A . A . Baker , Ensign J . B . "VVhitla , and Major O . P . Johnson in extension . At Musaoorie , Assistant-Surgeon M . B . Lamb has been appointed to the medical charge of the depot and various establishments . Leave to Mussoorie has been given to Lieut . F . T , Bainbridge in extension , to Capt . G . Forrest , and Lieut , and Adjutant G . C . Kelly . Leave to the Deyrah district has been given to Major S . J . Browne .
In October , 2 officers , 86 restored English invalids , and 50 Sowars marched from Nynee Tal , and their place was supplied by Lieut . Fisher of the 82 nd Foot with 43 English sick , and an escort of 50 of the Irregular Cavalry . For Nyneo Tal , leave has been , given to Lieut .-Col . 0 . Herbert , O . B ., and Ensign J . E . D . Campbell . In Sylhet , Mr . J . B . Shadwell has been appointed deputy magistrate and deputy collector . Leave for Landour has been given , to Ensign H . W . Fielden in extension , to Capt . S . M . Clarke in extension , and Ensign A . Dixon . At Almorah , in Kumaon , a regimental clepdt of the 66 th , or Ghoorka Regiment , is directed to be formed , and Lieut . R . S . Graved is appointed to the command .
to the small colony of Chinese in Calcutta * who are found , as usual , secretly banded together against the community and the police . They take Portuguese wives , but do not nationalfse the children , so that the colony does not greatly increase . When Chinese immigration sets in , as it will through the Burrampooter valley , some important influences will be brought to bear on India- . ] The Government of Ceylon has appointed emigration agents to collect , coolies in India , who are to be conveyed in steamers . ¦ We are sorry that an expedition of 2000 men , sent out from Sarawak under Captain Brooks to punish some of the Sarabas pirates , has not been successful , as , after driving them up into the country , they could not be further got at . The Ceylon pearl fishery is again in operation .
Tbe Government is turning to account the powerful organisation of labour , instituted by the railway contractors , to obtain the clearance of the jungles in the rebel districts . Messrs . Burn and Co . are hard at work on the Jugdespore jungle , in Oude . This is twentytwo miles long , by three broad , but including fields and open spaces . The flax cultivation in India is having the stimulus of English enterprise applied to it . The Punjab 33
particularly suitable for this plant . The heavy prices of provisions for Europeans . in Calcutta are attracting notice in , consequence of some evidence on a trial ; saddle and legs of mutton , l £ ; saddle , 10 s . ; leg of mutton , 5 s . ; forerquarter of mutton , 4 s . ; roasting fowlsj Is . ; curry chicken , 3 d . ; goose , 3 s . ; duck , 7 ± d . ; pigeon , 2 id . ; turkey , 12 s . It is hoped that when the hill districts have railway communication , meat , vegetables , and fruits of the temperate climates will be supplied cheaply and in good condition .
A tree , valuable for wood engraving , has been made known at Calcutta , being equally close-grained with box . It is found in the Southal jungles , and called " purparool . " Wood engraving is making such progress in India that it is an important instrument of native education * and the material for it a matter of importance , as boxwood is getting dear . The Government have ordered a diving-bell to be supplied to the port of Madras , after about two years ' correspondence , and the diving-bell has yet to be got . The quicksilver lode in Cannanore is as yet found to be very scantily disseminated in Laterite . The Home Government are sending out to Calcutta Four iron barges , constructed by Messrs . M . Pearse and Co ., at Stockton-on-Tees , and which contain about -150 tons of iron .
Mr . Le Mesurier , of the East India Railway Company , has been despatched to ' the Sutlej to survey and make arrangements for the proposed viaduct and the extension across that river . Great efforts arc being made in Calcutta as elsewhere to induce the Government to give up printing , and restore the half-caste and native writers , who have so long pressed on the Government establishments . It is alleged printing will be much dearer , but the Council for India may learn better , if they will tuke the opinion of largo firms at home . The works on the Ceylon Railway are going on well . Labour is sufficient , and the coolies are taking to the wheelbarrow , a grand lesson in the art of progress , marked by the local observers as a great advance in civilisation .
table-land above the Ghauts , thus avoiding the unfavourable effects of the low country . If . therefore judiciously distributed in the higher stations , they will be kept in good health and effective for immediate service . The provision which is now afforded for Bombay can , on the extension of the railway system , be given to the other stations . Troops landed at Madras will be at once conveyed to the Neilgherries , those at Calcutta or Port Mutlah to Darjeeling , and the Kurrachee troops to the Sciride sanataria . At Kurrachee , the collector is making great exertions to kill snakes . Some natives can earn 4 s . a day at snakekilling . The Indian Government was about to ship ten thousand tons of Sinde salt from Kurrachee .
Leave for Dhurmsala has been given to Lieutenant the Hon . G . H . W . Cliye and Ensign G . R . Wilberforce , 52 nd Foot , in extension . Leave for Murree has been given to Major W . H . Kirkby . Leave for Dugshaie has been given to Colonel U . Williamson . A strong effort is being made by some parties in Dharwar to draw attention to it as the true sanitarium of that part of Western India . The Bombay Gazette affirms that Dharwar links Belgaum to Bellary , Bellary to Gob , Belgaum to Hurryhur , Kulladghee to Coomta and the coast with Hyderabad . The Europeans have riot had a fatal case in seven- months , and the weather is cool all the year round . Temporary barracks are in course of erection , but the Dbarwar people claim that the place shall be made a . station for two or three
regiments . The collectorate of Dharwar is on high ground connected with the western , side of the Western Ghauts , and is famous as a cattle district . The town is within a hundred miles of the grand line of railway between Bombay and Madras , and the works on the' Bombay southern line are moving towards it . Coomta , on the Malabar coast , is used as its port . Leave to the Neilgherries has been given to Lieutenant E . Faunce for twelve months , Ensign R . C Whitlock for eight months , Major A . E . Saunder ? , Brigadier W . H . Miller in extension , Major J . Babington in extension , and Captain C . W . Moore in extension . - Leave to Mahableshwur is given to Lieutenant J . Jfoding . that band of
The injudicious measure of introducing scoundrels , the German Legion , into India does not escape without censure . After the trouble we have had from Sumroo and other Germans , and the numerous French officers in the Punjab and the local courts for about a century , with French and German officers pressing the War Ministers for leave to proceed to India and join the reyolters , the step of introducing such elements of discord admits of no excuse . The Germans are generally unprincipled , but the Legion consists of the scum of the country . It was bad enough sending , them to the Cape to sympathise with the Boers and Africaauders , and in India we shall have more than Germans enough in the emigrants , who will rush thither wjith the progress of the settlement movement . The Germans in India , although a small body , are increasing now .
The scheme for a Eurasian regiment to be raised in Bombay has failed , as the Portuguese prefer to be Government clerks or waiters at better pay than that of the private soldier . The situation of parties in India is beginning to attract attention . The old Conservative , or un-English , party is that which has possession of most of the offices , but the English party is gaining ground in India and'at home , and . even in the Supreme Council of India it is supposed to have three members , and is strong in the
The arrangements for the telegraph lino were at the last advices in progress in . Nagr > oro under the direction of Inspector W- J . Grinnal . The captive King of Dolhi lias made part of his journey to Calcutta by the East India Railway . It id said that accidents by fire are common on this railway , in consequence of wood being burned in the locomotives as in the American system : On the 2 Gth October , the works on the Lahore and Umritsur Railway wero commenced . The lino will , it is expected , be completed in eighteen months . The improvement of Lucknow is making a great change in that city . Many buildings have been nulled down and broad roads laid out . The enemy ' s mud forta have been erased , and most marks of the ravages of the war have beon removed . Only a few of the largo buildings still exhibit shot holes . -
subordinate Governments . The Friend of India observes that the general current of feeling is decidedly towards the English party , some of the very ablest Indians haying passed over to the opposition , and many more being engaged in weeding their minds . u The effept of the Conservative Committee has been almost incalculable , and the next session will , we believe , " says that able journal , " witness a struggle which , nominally for a system of administration , will be really for the introduction of a principle . "
The old leaven is , however , bo strong , that out of twenty-five deputy magistrates lately appointed fifteen are Hindoos , two are Mussulmans , and eight Christianawo suppose most of them half-oaate . Just at that time the police magistrate of Calcutta had been dismissed for what may be called want of knowledge of the bounds between justice and injustice , The Governor-General has declined to authorise at present the transmission of the wives and families of the rebels to the Andamans , but an accession of free population to the now colony will ho obtained . Dr . Walker is making strenuous oxorttons that the settlement may bo permanent , The Friend of India has boon paying some attention
The Government have directed 8000 / . to bo appropriated from the city tax for the erection of an English church at Lucknow . Captain Hutchlnson ia appointed architect . , An English paper ia to be started in Allahabad , the now capital of tho North-Weett Provincea . Mr . » . Blanchard is tho proprietor and editor . Mr . N . G . Steojo has beon appointed to tho charge o « the UmrUeur drainage works . Tho Calcutta drainage aohomo ia aa lingering as mo metropolitan main drainage . Tho plan has been sent homo to Moaara . Rondel , and they have not yet bc « n ablo to report .
It is satisfactory to find the attention of the Government is still given to the Hindostan and Thibet road , of which Lieut . G . A . F . Houchon is appointed to temporary charge during tho absence of Capt . Briggs , tho superintendent . Considerable interruption is caused to tho hill trade by Jung Bahadoor having stopped the cutting of timber in all parts of tho Torai within the territory of Nopaul . As an example of tho advantages which can bo placed within tho reach of tho English soldier In India , we may observe that on tho 8 th of November fourteen officers and ilvo hundred and ten soldiers arrived at Bombay , and on tho evening f tho 10 th they disembarked and proceeded by rail to Poona , on the high
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 8, 1859, page 24, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08011859/page/24/
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